Faith and Romance
Christian Church Architecture in Japan and the Issue of the Wedding Chapels
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https://doi.org/10.17979/aarc.2022.9.0.9348Keywords:
Japan, Church, Wedding Chapels, Building Typology, Cultural AppropriationAbstract
For a long time, Japanese church buildings were of little interest for Western observers. This attitude started to change since the late 1980s when Tadao Andô’s Chapel on the Water attracted Western attention, as did buildings by Jun Itami and Fumihiko Maki. The works of these architects fuelled the global search for a contemporary design of worship. However, their works also pose a discursive problem: hardly any of these intriguing buildings is actually a church or a place of worship in a more general way. These are largely event spaces to stage and celebrate a romantic relationship. The entrepreneurial background does not change the expressiveness and quality of the architecture itself, but it certainly changes the economic and functional contexts in which the building had been created and still being maintained. In addition, it also raises questions about the ways in which ideas of religion and architecture travel the world and carry meaning on both universal and local planes.
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